August 1, 2024 – The Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Providers Administration (SAMHSA) of the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS) has launched outcomes from the 2023 Nationwide Survey on Drug Use and Well being (NSDUH), which examines how U.S. residents report their experiences with psychological sickness, substance use, and therapy searching for.

The 2023 NSDUH report consists of choose estimates by race, ethnicity, and age group. The report is accompanied by two infographics with visually packaged spotlight knowledge and visible knowledge by race and ethnicity. Notable knowledge included that amongst adults aged 18 or older in 2023, 22.8% (or 58.7 million individuals) had a previous yr psychological sickness (AMI), based on SAMHSA, and 31.9% of adolescents aged 12 to 17 (or 8.3 million individuals) acquired psychological well being therapy previously yr, a rise of greater than 500,000 from 2022.

Addressing the nation's psychological well being disaster and drug overdose epidemic is a high precedence for HHS and is among the key pillars of the administration's Unity Agenda.

Learn extra in regards to the report right here.